We, at the Pittsburgh Supply Chain Management team under the Products & Innovation board area, cater to innovations across product areas like Inventory Optimization (IBP for Inventory), Demand Sensing (IBP for Demand) and DDR (IBP for Demand Driven Replenishment).  

As a Software Developer on the IBP team, you will be working on the development of SAP’s leading solution for Supply Chain Planning in the Cloud based on HANA. SAP has been the market leader in Enterprise Software for more than 40 years. Today, innovation continues to flourish at SAP with HANA in Memory Database at the core of the next generation of Enterprise Applications. The focus of the position is the development of the IBP for Demand Driven Replenishment module within the IBP Platform, but it can also extend to other modules that are also developed by our local teams in Pittsburgh like Demand Sensing or Demand Driven Supply Network.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

• Works in a cross-functional implementation team and is responsible for development focusing on design, coding, testing and quality assurance of complex product features using ABAP, SAP GUI, ABAP Eclipse Development, AMDPs, HANA, HANA Studio, SQL Script, JavaScript.
• Resolves complex issues within own area of expertise and supports others in resolving issues
• Shows initiative and drives topics to resolution in a high level of quality, speed, reliability and efficiency
• Works closely together with others and shares expertise to ensure product success
• Constantly improves own work methods to gain state-of-the-art agile software engineering skills.  Enhances skills beyond own core functional focus and works on other tasks for the benefit of the team
• Writes unit tests for own code using AUNIT and reviews unit tests of colleagues in the team to ensure good coverage
• Writes Automated Acceptance Tests in BDD style using Java, Cucumber and Selenium
• Creates a detailed test design incl. test system landscape definition and product standards, prepares tests (customizing & master data), authors and executes manual and/or automated tests
• Analyzes test results and takes appropriate follow-up actions
• Has proficient knowledge and technical competencies of relevant programming languages and related development tools and processes.
• Shares knowledge and helps grow the capabilities of the team through presentations, mentoring, and coaching in your implementation team and product area. 
• Documents code and test results
• Documents root cause analysis, workarounds and solutions on internal and customer incidents
• Supports, provides maintenance and bug fixes on IBP DDR customer installations
• Analyzes and improve performance in the execution of the IBP DDR module
• Analyzes and debugs code from other parts of the IBP Platform that directly or indirectly affect, create issues or degrade performance in the IBP modules. Communicates with other IBP teams responsible for those other modules for the effective resolution of any issues

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related Engineering field
• Experience working with Databases, SQL and a programming with Database Scripting Languages like SQL Script
• Experience writing complex queries and tuning them for performance
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and its fundamental principles
• Working experience developing software with Java
• Working experience writing Unit Test
• Understanding of TDD and BDD
• Experience working in a SCRUM team
• Analytical Thinking and Problem-Solving abilities expressing solutions in code
• Process and detailed oriented
• Self-motivated working attitude
• Ability and desire to learn new technologies and skills, specifically SAP related technology like HANA and ABAP
• Ability to communicate well within a diverse team and with other teams around the globe
• Flexibility and ability to adapt quickly to changes
• Experience debugging, diagnosing and fixing issues in own and peer’s code
• Skills working with HANA and writing SQL Script preferable
• Programming skills in ABAP, OO development in ABAP and SAP technologies preferable
• Working experience writing Automated Acceptance Tests in Java using Selenium preferable
• Working experience developing and testing Web Applications with Java and JavaScript preferable
• Working experience developing with Web Services (ODATA is a plus)

WORK EXPERIENCE

1-5 years of working experience developing Enterprise Applications

WHAT YOU GET FROM US

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